

1929 | Swar Kokila Lata Mangeshkar was born. |
1767 | Sajjan 17 forbids private slave transport to the Cape of Good Hope, India. |
1838 | The last Mughal emperor in India Bahadur Shah Zafar ascended the throne after his father's death. |
1977 | India's famous poet Sumitranandan Pant died. He is one of the four major pillars of the Chhayawadi era in Hindi literature. |
2004 | The World Bank named India as the fourth largest economy in the world. |
2011 | Chief Minister Mayawati announced the creation of three more districts in Uttar Pradesh, comprising 72 districts, namely Panchsheel Nagar, Prabuddhanagar and Sambhal. |
1836 | Birth of spiritual master Shirdi Sai Baba. |